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CoinDesk reports:Bitmine has completed 82% of its goal to hold 5% of Ethereum.The amount of Ethereum held is close to 5 million ETH, valued at over $11.5 billion.Staking operations generate over $220 million in revenue annually, with potential for further growth in the future.Bitmine is nearing one ...

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Apple has announced John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as CEO on September 1, with Cook transitioning to Executive Chairman. Ternus, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, will join Apple’s Board of Directors upon becoming CEO. Art Levinson, non-executive Chai...

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Haseeb Qureshi, partner at Dragonfly, posted on X that DeFi continues to grow through repeated failures. From the collapse of Terra, the failed liquidations during "Black Thursday" in 2020, to the stETH depegging event in 2022, the industry has faced numerous setbacks, y...

According to Jin10 Data, Apple (AAPL.O) announced on Monday that John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as CEO on September 1, with Cook transitioning to Executive Chairman. Ternus, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, will join Apple’s Board of Directors upon assuming the CEO role. Art Levinso...

Key InsightsCrypto news shows NFT buyers jumped 91.71% week-over-week to 103,182.Courtyard led collections with $7.82 million in weekly NFT sales.Ethereum topped blockchains with $21.91 million in NFT volume.In the latest crypto news, the global NFT market recorded a sharp recovery in buyer activity...

An incident report published by Llamarisk to the Aave forum explains that a bridge exploit targeting KelpDAO’s Layerzero V2 rsETH route on Saturday allowed an attacker to extract 116,500 rsETH from Ethereum’s OFT adapter without burning any tokens on the source chain. Llamarisk’s report notes that t...

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CoinDesk reports:Cryptocurrency investment products recorded their strongest weekly inflows since January, with $1.4 billion in new funds, as Bitcoin broke out of a two-month trading range fueled by optimism over a ceasefire and cooling inflation data.Digital asset funds recorded positive inflows fo...

Story HighlightsGrayscale has amended its HYPE ETF filing with the SEC to place Anchorage Digital as custodian in place of Coinbase.The decision is based on conflicts of interest, market monopoly, and regulatory concerns, among other reasons.The HYPE price is slightly down amid heightened selling pr...

Security trade-offs in cross-chain infrastructure are drawing sharper scrutiny as operational shortcuts threaten to undercut protections built into bridge designs. Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz’s latest remarks tied those risks to RLUSD-related evaluations and broader collateral concerns.Key Ta...

ChainCatcher report, according to CNBC, CME's "FedWatch" tool shows a 0% probability of the Federal Reserve raising rates by 25 basis points in April, with a 100% probability of holding rates steady. Additionally, the probability of a cumulative 25-basis-point rate cut by June is 2.5%, while the pro...

Aave released a report stating that, due to a vulnerability in the Kelp DAO bridge, the protocol could face two potential loss scenarios: if the loss is distributed across all rsETH, the loss would be approximately $123 million; if limited to Layer 2, the loss could reach up to $230 million. The vul...

Key Insights:XRP Ledger (XRPL) quantum upgrade targets full readiness by 2028.Ripple says “harvest now, decrypt later” is a real planning risk.XRP traded near $1.43 as Ripple outlined the roadmap.Ripple has placed the XRP Ledger (XRPL) quantum upgrade at the center of its long-term security strategy...

CoinDesk reports:As DeFi moves into the mainstream, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton are turning to the XRP Ledger.As decentralized finance (DeFi) matures and becomes the connective tissue of modern finance, its focus is shifting from experimentation to real-world applications, and inst...

CoinDesk reports:On Monday, Aave service provider released a incident report quantifying the protocol’s exposure to the Kelp DAO rsETH bridge vulnerability on April 18, outlining two default scenarios ranging from $123.7 million to $230.1 million, and recommending an immediate pause of the protocol’...